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Re:AES on the iPhone is Broken by Default by tptacek on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @11:28AM (#3352406)
Using the same key+nonce pair in a stream cipher has the effect of generating an identical keystream. It's a much, much worse problem than repeating IVs; it makes decrypting the resulting ciphertext stream almost a pencil/paper exercise.

Sorry for the pedantry.

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